Zig heading toward a self-hosting compiler

Posted Oct 7, 2020 7:37 UTC (Wed) by pabs (subscriber, #43278)
Parent article: Zig heading toward a self-hosting compiler

It seems it will still be possible to bootstrap Zig via LLVM:

https://github.com/ziglang/zig-bootstrap

Zig heading toward a self-hosting compiler

Posted Oct 7, 2020 13:30 UTC (Wed) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] (2 responses)

It's useful to keep a bootstrap entry point that doesn't depend on a blockchain-like structure of previous versions. A lot of other self-hosting languages don't, and I imagine it causes downstream “reproducible build” efforts endless migraines.

Zig heading toward a self-hosting compiler

Posted Oct 7, 2020 16:39 UTC (Wed) by willy (subscriber, #9762) [Link] (1 responses)

Yes.

https://elephly.net/posts/2017-01-09-bootstrapping-haskel...

Zig heading toward a self-hosting compiler

Posted Oct 8, 2020 1:16 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

The umbrella project for these sorts of efforts:

https://bootstrappable.org/